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UWE Racing impresses at Silverstone

Motorsport Engineering undergraduate, Dan Nicklin, was in the
15-strong UWE Bristol team named ‘highest placed newcomer’ in
Silverstone’s Formula Student Competition 2012. They planned to
build on their success through designing, building and racing a
single-seater car at Silverstone this July. Unfortunately, they
couldn’t get funding but they’ve already started building the
car.

Building the UWE Bristol team

"All the students involved are putting their own free time into
this. It’s great working with like-minded people. Everybody has an
interest in Motorsports though there are team members from
Economics, Law and lots of other different disciplines. The main
team is from Motorsport Engineering but there are Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineers as well.

"Universities from all over the world take part in the
competition. In Class 2 last year, there were 22 teams and we
finished tenth overall, which was pretty good. This was despite us
not having team members with skills like economics. We had to do a
lot of this ourselves and we were quite proud of that. Now we’re
building our business propositions for the event so we’re looking
for more business students to get involved and help out on
these.

"It’s a good opportunity to use everything we’ve learned on
the course and put it into something useful. We also got to pick
our jobs within the team, so we’ve been able to discover what we
want to specialise in. That’s been really useful."

"A lot of the current team are third years so they are going to
leave this year. We’ve got the basis for a car except the funding.
It’s all there. We’re going to need new students to get involved
and keep it going so we can do even better next year."